Collaborate Disseminate
Why deleting your Twitter account may be a very bad idea, how the police unravelled the iSpoof fraud gang, and a trip into outer space (or at least interplanetary file systems).
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #300: Interplanetary file systems, iSpoof, and don’t delete Twitter
A UK police force has apologised after it published the names and addresses of victims of sexual assault on its website.
Suffolk Police says that it has launched an investigation into how victims’ names, addresses, dates of birth, and details of rep… Continue reading Police force published sexual assault victims’ names and addresses on its website
The Queensland police department said that the DNA sample from the case generated a genealogy tree of “15,000 ‘linked’ individuals” and they have not been able to find a close match yet. Continue reading Police Use DNA Phenotyping to Limit Pool of Suspects to 15,000
The metaverse is evolving, and tech giants like Meta (the firm previously known as Facebook), Microsoft, and Google are betting big that you’ll want to be a part of it.
You know who else might be keen? Criminals.
Read more in my article on the H… Continue reading Crime in the metaverse – police face new challenges in a virtual world
What is slushygate and how does it link to sextortion in the States? What is the most impersonated brand when it comes to delivering phishing emails? And what the flip is nano-targeting?
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of … Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #295: Slushygate, sextortion, and nano-targeting
By Deeba Ahmed
In total, the publically exposed Elasticsearch database contained a whopping 335 million records or roughly 24GB worth of highly sensitive data.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Major Database Mess Up Leaves India… Continue reading Major Database Mess Up Leaves Indian Federal Police and Banking Records Exposed
Amazon has revealed that it gives police videos from its Ring doorbells without a warrant and without user consent.
Ring recently revealed how often the answer to that question has been yes. The Amazon company responded to an inquiry from US Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.), confirming that there have been 11 cases in 2022 where Ring complied with police “emergency” requests. In each case, Ring handed over private recordings, including video and audio, without letting users know that police had access to—and potentially downloaded—their data. This raises many concerns about increased police reliance on private surveillance, a practice that has long gone unregulated…
Continue reading Ring Gives Videos to Police without a Warrant or User Consent
Back in 2016, Ford fitted out a special F-150 truck for serve-and-protect duty as a police service vehicle. Now the company has done something similar with the new all-electric version of the pickup, which has been dubbed the F-150 Lightning Pro SSV.Co… Continue reading Ford electrifies law enforcement with F-150 Lightning police edition
Surely no one could have predicted this:
The new proposal—championed by Mayor London Breed after November’s wild weekend of orchestrated burglaries and theft in the San Francisco Bay Area—would authorize the police department to use non-city-owned security cameras and camera networks to live monitor “significant events with public safety concerns” and ongoing felony or misdemeanor violations.
Currently, the police can only request historical footage from private cameras related to specific times and locations, rather than blanket monitoring. Mayor Breed also complained the police can only use real-time feeds in emergencies involving “imminent danger of death or serious physical injury.”…
Continue reading San Francisco Police Want Real-Time Access to Private Surveillance Cameras
Amazon has revealed it supplied Ring doorbell video footage to police more than 10 times this year without a warrant, court order or permission from the device owner. The revelation comes as part of an investigation into Amazon’s privacy practices by U… Continue reading Amazon handed police Ring video without owner’s consent or warrant